These people aren't "exploring" anything. It's just an expensive thrill ride.

Six Flags level BS for those with more money than brains, ethics, or empathy. 🙄

AMEN ...

I don’t have any big objection to this. But it’s a good opportunity for science educators to talk to their students about the complexity differential btwn sub-orbital and orbital space flight in terms of physics, engineering, and risk.

It's just offensive. 😞

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The Taxpayers funded that adventure at the expense of Cancer Research, USAID, the VA, and …

Gross

I came to say that very thing. 🤮 fucking gross

Blatant waste of money and resources, all for show. Disgusting

I noted, "I see they're dumping plastics into the atmosphere now." (those implants, good lord!)

All that money and he can't buy a shirt that fits.

The initial air flight was also business of the few, oh the happy few. Later, popularizing it, it became the commercial initiative we all know. Of course, air flight has effectively where to go - and land. Space flight... not so much, at least, for a while. And I remember that 'Elysium' movie...

To be fair, Lauren Sanchez’ trip to ‘space’ actually had scientific merit. She’s helping the study of the effect of weightlessness on plastic surgery.

For some reason I got a flashback to the movie “Don’t Look Back.”

It would help if the press would stop shoving them down our throats. They live on attention. If they do something worthwhile, then cover it

About the only thing these rich attention seekers could do that would remotely interest me would be die..

Repugnant people doing repugnant things

Revolting

It brings a tear to my eye. Then someone tells me SpaceX didn't build the rocket, so it's impending explosion isn't a given, and suddenly I'm reminded how unfair the universe can be.

And all Space activity should also be subject to Environmental Review. But is all has an exemption thanks to Reagan. The world banned aerosols to save the ozone but now Starlink and others too threaten our delicate ozone layer. www.cnet.com/home/interne...

They did not go into space. They didn't even reach LEO. This is a glorified carnival ride. straight up and down. They are weightless only because it free falls for a few minutes. Now these rich f**ks think they are astronauts because they paid for a carnival ride.

So how did you imagine hotels on orbit? Budget vacations? It would be same as with satellites. First army, then business and after that people. Rich and after them others.

Welcome to 15th century Europe

George, they should get you on Have I Got News For You A satirical current affairs program on the BBC They have a different host each episode Hat Trick Productions T: +44 (0) 20 7184 7777 E: reception@hattrick.com

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It was only a special moment for a few rich people. Of course sending Elmo to Mars for good would be ok.

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Why did they let them come back????

Here here!

IKR? The idiocy of them putting on this ridiculous show at a time when our nation is in crisis. It must be nice to be in that kind of bubble.

“Astronauts” 😂

At least he fell on his face rounding the capsule.

At the same time these were taking a short jump of 11 minutes, the first norwegian astronaut came home. She was the first norwegian in command of a real space mission on the first polar orbit

The Limp-dick Race to (the lowest stratosphere) Space

$10 million, or higher "must be this rich to enter"

I'd swear Katy Perry was high on X when she departed the penisship. The "love" she experienced.🤢

“Penisship”. Love this

Oligarchs offering bread and circuses to keep us distracted from what they are actually doing to our country.

Hear hear

It's giving, let them eat cake.

It's really nauseating. These people are so out of touch. Help others. They are so self-absorbed.

We should celebrate the grace under pressure of the woman who went for a 3 hour cruise on the last one and ended up there for months. That is tenacity and a real accomplishment.

I wonder what the effects of weightlessness do to plastic surgery?

All this while real women of NASA are being eliminated.

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Indeed. Absolutely awful

These woman are NOT astronauts!! Kind of insulting!! Kissing the ground, Oprah crying….🤮

Although Aisha Bowes is not an astronaut, she has degrees in aerospace engineering and once worked for NASA. Granted, this "trip" was a joyride, but I can understand why she made it.

REAL inspiration.

Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn contributed more to space science than these over-privileged performative babes did.

To boldly pollute the stratosphere like nobody did before, and for no good reason.

#Dems: go #progressive. Be #partisan. Try to foil all the #GOP tries to do. Be #mean. #universalhealthcare, #universaleducation, $20/hour minimum wage and automatic yearly #minimumwage raise based on inflation and cost of living, #taxtherich at 92% on every dollar after $500mil. #fundthefuture

This was just the latest, most blatant, display of the worst of "our" desire to show off "our" privilege in the name of... checks notes ... I got nothing 🤷‍♀️🙄 To those of you, #women especially!!!!!, who called these people #brave?!?!? O.M.G.

Bezos ,like Musk, has a warped sense of moral values.

So gross

Cunts in space! Good title for a lesbian porn movie.

The rocket didn’t blow up? Well, that’s disappointing.

I hate this timeline we are living in so badly

They think it's THEIR money. It's the PEOPLE'S money.

Amusement park for the rich people just got vulgar.

The billionaires are no longer welcome on Earth. Let them go to space and stay there.

Did we at least find out the effects of zero gravity on silicone body parts & fillers?

Not astronauts.. Stratonauts.. nowhere near escape or orbital velocity. (thinking of old woman in Blade runner for a moment there.. "Not fish scale, snake scale")

I'd be fine with one-way trips for a select few 😉

Il faut toujours écouter son capitaine.

That is GLAM over STEM 🤡

Perhaps something could be achieved if an egomaniac who drools ketamine would not be charge of SpaceX

What else would a psychopath do with a mountain of money ? Bezos doesn't have empathy, he doesn't give a shit about the peasants.

shocked that Gail King agreed to go, when she was terrified

More efficient, less costly, and more science gets done on unmanned missions. People have to be cared for and brought back.

In order to obtain Roddenberry's vision of a justice-filled future, we need to #eattherich.

ABSOLUTELY. The talk of empowering women is rubbish, especially with NASA suffering cuts.

So many other women, who’ve trained to be astronauts, deserved this flight instead of those who have 💰

@georgetakei.bsky.social What do you think about abolishing the class of billionaires altogether, seizing their assets and redistribute them among the rest of us? Many social problems get resolved this way.

Don't care that these rich went to space for ten minutes but just don't try to tell me I should be inspired.

ABSOLUTELY

I had a good long think about this. I can't be mad at any of those who went, they took nothing from me, and they spent, what really is their money, on an experience I am, in fact, envious of. I still think billionaires shouldn't exist but I can't change that they do hating them doesn't change things

I think I'm going to puke.

The parasites of our wealth.

Appalling display of privilege for privilege sake. Families could have been fed. Shame on Gail, CBS, and those who participated.

But. #eggPrices

I wish more people realized that while those of us who love astronomy wish it was easily accessible to the masses, it is an expensive interest. There is plenty of beauty in the sky but anything other than binoculars costs several thousand $$. I wish that could change.

Let them go. But make them sign a will leaving their money to real charities/worthy causes. Like a real free healthcare program for all Americans.

That's one small step for the low price of $5 billion. One giant press release for mankind.

Blue Origin initials are B.O. and it stinks! Bezos just got $2.4 Billion in U.S. Gov contracts after this stunt. I wish he'd blast off!

May they touch the face of god.

Well said.

this display of billionaire asses....makes me 🤢🤮

In my admittedly anecdotal experience, appearance of the word "whimsy" in a student paper is a dead giveaway of AI assistance.

One of them had the gall to say we should take care of earth. But we should be equally critical whether its women or men. I feel like I'm seeing more criticism with this woman team.

It was ... 😶

Stop buying from Amazon. Period. Full stop. He can waste money like this because we pay for it!

When I was a kid I watched Star Trek and you helped me dream of a brighter future. When I got a bit older, during a very anti-lgbt time, you helped me change my views on sexual orientation, leading to a more positive outlook and several new friends. Now in adulthood, you are still helping. Thank you

And further damage the only livable planet earth

Boycott Amazon!

Courtesy of trump

They’re entitled and it’s disgusting

They are gross

You can say that, you've been everywhere! ;

Let them eat space?

Toys

Ugliest Ken and Barbie I've ever seen, inside and out.

The rich flaunting their wealth as everyday people worry about where their next meal is coming from or if they will be able to make rent

ABSOLUTELY

Everyone that pays taxes paid for these entertainers to go to space. How many deserving women scientists could have gone on this flight instead? 🤔

Those lips and wrinkles aren't going to fill or botox themselves, ya know.

I was hoping she'd get off that rocket with her entire face and body completely deflated. (I do understand that's not how it works but I can dream, can't I?)

Not enough time in zero G 😂

This is THE dumbest most performative BS I have ever known of.

Agree.

Billionaires really are so clueless. It’s obscene.

“He is orbiting the crime scene He sees us down here burning Tell me what’s it gonna take”

Space travel is now a toy of the filthy rich. Imagine if that $ was used to pay taxes.

As if nothing urgent is happening within its borders. Tone deaf billionaires.

These women should not be held up as examples to young females as anything related to science. They're an example of women who can buy their way into a scenario based on money, fame and who they're sleeping with.

I was particularly nauseous when they kissed the ground as they got back on earth. They were gone an hour. Get over yourself.

Imagine an even darker mirror universe where Federation starships are run like techstart ups, the officer staff are all the top investors, and the crew all subcontracted through an app on their tri-corder.

The. Worst. Timeline! 😰

Billionaire excess soon to be paid for with taxpayer money that was allocated to programs to assist veterans, to Medicaid and SNAP recipients, and to paying SSA staff.

I'm glad that the consensus is that this whole charade was utter bullshit and a waste of money.

Is Lauren sanchez the first one to go to space with fakies?

She's probably the ugliest one ever.

Fake face/lips too that's a lot of buoyancy.

They were to assist in emergency ocean splashdown.😂

AFD's - additional floating devices.

Imagine if the damn thing blew up on launch and all they found was a smoldering implant...

If only.

Katy's got fakies too

So, and this is important, who got to space first?

Lol! Whoever's hair was the tallest.

If we look at the video, it seams that sanchez is the first to unbuckle and go weightless, so that might mean her. At the same time it would be helpfull if Blue origin provided some more info: Angle of entry and positioning of the seats at the time. So far im giving that to Sanchez.

I might have been ok with this if they'd left Ms Perry up there in permanent orbit...

I see they brought back an illegal Alien

They want to colonize Mars, while the Earth is suffering. Greedy.

Look at what they did with our money.

Couldn’t even watch any coverage of this. Disappointed in Gayle King going along with this billionaire field trip; she’s lost her integrity imo & apparently Oprah encouraged her to do it? A big PR stunt for Bezos.

They both lost any credibility long ago in my opinion. Dr Oz. and Dr Phil. are just two examples of poor life choices. 😉

To be fair, most companies that act in the benefit of the many were bootstrapped using money from the few. Its how a company gets through the reality that R&D is really expensive. It doesn't end with the first iteration of a product, that's usually for people willing to pay more

"Let them breathe our 2nd hand greenhouse gasses"

I cant imagine not being embarrassed to micromanage my employees bathroom activities, abuse them, hire Pinkertons to union bust, and collect taxes from them, all so I could go float around in space like a jerk-off on my spaceship What he saw the creepy dying guy from Contact and thought I want that

Better times:

Jeff bezos roided out !

It's almost like they're daring us to roll out the guillotines again, isn't it?

Just ordered this

We have the electric chair now - takes longer and is a lot more entertaining

Yeah I mean, is Harcourt Fenton Musk really who we want to represent the human race if aliens are watching

That isn't even really space. 🤣 They'd be 🤮 in outerspace. 😂

CRAZY that edging the atmosphere on a private dick rocket has everyone’s tits tingling while NASA women are being fired and erased.

cc @hignfy.bsky.social You got a mention by George Takei :)

I’ve always been perplexed by people who need to leave the planet in order to realise how precious and beautiful it is.

It's a new field to louse up!

Sweet photo! So touching! Love among the ruins of many, many other lives.

How did sending 6 rich women into subspace help women's rights or help/support the women being jailed for having a miscarriage? Where are your priorities people?

this Blue Origin jaunt/stunt is the contemporary version of royals, nobility, celebrities, the filthy rich going on safari to "exotic" locales, and then calling/considering themselves naturalists and wildlife experts

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Oh, humanity would benefit hugely from space travel right now if Trump, Vance, Musk, Bezos & Co were shot to Mars as quickly as possible, one-way ticket! Musk owes us that. Okay, one-way to the moon would be enough. To make it even more challenging: limited O2 supply.

A big publicity stunt, not what the world needs right now. How about feeding some children or elderly with all that money you just wasted

Like the voyages of colonial discovery only the lower classes can suffer the hardships necessary for lasting exploration and colonization

Or the billions in plastic surgery that went into that stretched face

This might have been our first test of extensive plastic surgery in zero gravity though. Hopefully somebody was taking metrics. Oh, they weren't? Oh.

100% agree, not a historic accomplishment when all they are doing is buying a seat on a rocket.

Oligarchic bullshit

It's an experience I would love to have, but know I never shall, can't even afford to drive, never mind get blasted into orbit...

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I really want to say something hopeful about radiation exposure right now. Does that make me a bad person?

I miss when billionaires used their money & influence to build libraries & museums, instead of spending $28M on a pretentious "feminist space flight." I'm still cringing at "this will be the first time anybody went to space with their hair & makeup done." WOW! Stunning achievement for womankind.

Devoid of conscience.

The most expensive funfair ride in history, with the worst possible timing They just show you how shallow they are Haven’t these people got enough stuff FFS!

This was billionaire propaganda.

Ugh

Indeed Cosplay for the indifferent

I want the timeline where this blows up and not the Challenger with the teacher in it

Well he did face plant😂😂 so I guess there’s a metaphor in there somewhere!!

I'm getting all misty eyed...

Sounds more philosophical than "No one should do anything unless everyone has the opportunity and ability to do it."

No one should do something that creates such waste for the sole purpose of something to do. The carbon footprint from this will come out of taxpayer pockets. The money wasted from this stunt would have fixed a lot of problems for many impoverished individuals.

I wonder how many extremely qualified astronaut candidates who barely missed the cut, are PISSED that Bezos is giving free rides to Oprah's best friend and Katy Perry for PR. 🙄

I suspect it was a trailer for the soon to be announced Real Housewives of Space.

I love astronomy. I've loved it ever since I can remember. This, however, is just a bored billionaire doing whatever he wants because he can. That is it. He isn't concerned about the issues on Earth's surface because he can afford to not give a f*ck.

Hey, let’s erase women & POC from NASA websites and at the same time gush over a publicity stunt 🤬

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Billionaires “solve” fake problems: driverless cabs, food apps, not-quite-space tourism. Fewer & fewer low skill jobs, shitty healthcare, shitty schools. But hey, rich folks got a rocket ride. So… when exactly do we eat the rich? Asking for everyone stuck on Earth.

This was just so tone-deaf. I can’t help concluding it was all about Big Papi Bezos’s finance Lauren Sanchez wanting to create space (😂😂) at her adult blast-off quinceañera for the Popular Gurls so as to ingratiate herself with them and appear more like a celeb, less like an escort.

And you, George, should know, having been their & done it! 😊

*there 🙄

Dear George...your type of space travel is for the benefit of mankind...brilliant entertainment. What possible use is manned travel to Mars...except to maybe dump some of the worse kind of homo sapiens in the red dust.

Can Elon Musk please whimsy himself to Mars. Permanently.

This wasn't "space exploration" by any stretch of the imagination, it was nothing more than an expensive thrill ride. They aren't astronauts, they are customers.

ABSOLUTELY. Probably spent more time on makeup and photos than actually being above 100km.

Probably? Definitely. They spent more time walking to the launchpad. Frankly, if I walked onto the launchpad and saw this atrociously phallic compensation for Bezos's shortcomings, I would definitely assume I was about to get screwed.

What about the scientific significance highlighted involving the perils of when a false eyelash becomes dislodged in zero gravity.

I want that peer reviewed.

The waste of money is grotesque. I just don't get it.

i don't know, just one miscalculation can mess things up. let them test it.

Agree

They burn money and wonder why people want to murder them.

I love how they make it this big spectacle. Like us peasants are all supposed to love it and applaud them for doing the most mundane shit with their Johnson rocket. Who gives a crap.

Such BS!! Grrr 😡

Boycott those women like we’ve been boycotting Amazon! Fuck you Katy Perry. Trump has disrespect the women of NASA. We support each other we don’t tear each other down!

Another reason to hate Shatner. He partook in a stunt like this.

Maybe this will be the new Oceangate?

This stunt is a real Who Gives A 💩 moment. So completely out of touch with the reality of the day.

Yes!! a thousand times, yes!

What gives with Bezos' bicep?? Weird and creepy? Were they trying to photoshop him up some "big guns"? FAIL.

This kind of wealth flaunting makes me sick, the cost of that 10 minute trip could end homelessness in my town but Bezos and the celebs spend too little time worrying about the real issues effecting the fans that feed them

How tone deaf is this. The cost of that flight could have funded actual life saving work that was slashed because these human dingleberries don’t pay taxes or run pump and dump schemes.

Should be a prize for a uni student who has the highest marks in some subject specific to space travel? Give some spot freely to a Nobel prize winner, if they chose it. Ideas like that, or make a wish foundation.

yawn. . . so. . .

That's democrats for ya

And MAGA calls liberals "elitists".

I'm all for sending these people if it's a one way trip.

Same. I was wondering if this stunt backfired since a rapid disassembly would have left Bezos looking for a new girlfriend while also diverting attention away from Trump and the WH. Landing safely may not have been the plan. 😳 IDK 🤔

This was not space travel. This was a plane like vehicle flying super high for a few minutes, full of super rich women. I mean, cool for them, but the govt is currently defending schools and science. But they got their moment. Maybe now do something useful with it.

Lucky for me, I've only heard of one of those hoes

Don’t worry, there was definitely zero exploration on this vanity joyride.

Just remember this when you mail order books.

Certainly understand the appeal of the Suborbital Flight, my objection is the Enormous amount of Fuel spent on a Joyride, that could have been used for a Real Mission.

Oh, look. A dickhead standing next to his dickhead-shaped rocket.

Absolute Dumbest

Agreed... ugh. 🤬

Good docudrama on Max about these space/tech bros and our authoritarian world. bsky.app/profile/mike...